What is Friend Connect? Allows any site to become an OpenSocial container by simply copying a few snippets of code into your site http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

Friend Connect Social Graph A B C D E Orkut A’ B’ Z’ F’ G’ Myspace A’’ B’’ K’’ F’’ G’’ Google Login (Gmail) mysite.com uses Friend Connect A’’ B Z’ mysite.com adopts FC A’’ signups for mysite.com using Friend Connect A’’ has an orkut account as A and myspace account as A’ A’’ invites B from Orkut and Z’ from myspace to be part of his social graph for mysite.com Social Graph for your site

mysite.com adopts FC

A’’ signups for mysite.com using Friend Connect

A’’ has an orkut account as A and myspace account as A’

A’’ invites B from Orkut and Z’ from myspace to be part of his social graph for mysite.com

Friend Connect gives ... Users ... more ways to do more things with their friends Site owners more (and more engaged) traffic for their site Build a Social graph with profiles from across the web as opposed to a single social networking site App developers ... more reach for my apps and ... make it easy

Users

... more ways to do more things with their friends

Site owners

more (and more engaged) traffic for their site

Build a Social graph with profiles from across the web as opposed to a single social networking site

App developers

... more reach for my apps

and ... make it easy

Friend Connect Data w/o Gadgets Get the social features into your home page outside of iframes Use Friend Connect social graph and inter-mingle with your content Use OpenSocial APIs to create social scenarios

Get the social features into your home page outside of iframes

Use Friend Connect social graph and inter-mingle with your content

Use OpenSocial APIs to create social scenarios

Friend Connect on Your Site How it looks like..

Friend Connect In-Page Integration Embed User signup code in the base page Social features using Friend Connect Social Graph using OpenSocial APIs.

Sign up for friend Connect Allow user to sign-in on Friend Connect get his Friend Connect Social Graph onto your site Become an OpenId provider or integrate with an openid provider, all your users will be able to sign-up for Friend Connect Users get their Social Graph from FC We have a Web Site with an existing User base : How do we integrate Friend Connect

Sign up for friend Connect

Allow user to sign-in on Friend Connect get his Friend Connect Social Graph onto your site

Become an OpenId provider or integrate with an openid provider, all your users will be able to sign-up for Friend Connect

Users get their Social Graph from FC

We have a Web Site with an existing User base : How do we integrate Friend Connect ..contd Use OpenId to allow your existing userbase to be plugged in

Friend List comes from friend connect Login for Friend connect using OpenId mysite.com’s Friend Connect Social graph A’’’ B Z’ A’’’ mysite.com’s existing use base OPENID We have a Web Site with an existing User base : How do we integrate Friend Connect..contd

Friend Connect gives ... Users ... more ways to do more things with my friends Site owners ... more (and more engaged) traffic for my site App developers ... more reach for my apps and ... make it easy

Users

... more ways to do more things with my friends

Site owners

... more (and more engaged) traffic for my site

App developers

... more reach for my apps

and ... make it easy

Summary Social Web OpenSocial Introduction OpenSocial Foundation OpenSocial Apps – Best Practices Demo – Building an OpenSocial App Friend Connect : Making the web more social

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